25th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

Session 8B: Large-Scale Dynamics and Convection III (Parallel with Sessions 8A, 8C, and 8D)

Wednesday, 1 May 2002: 9:15 AM-10:30 AM
Organizer:  Robert A. Tomas, PAOS, Univ. of Colorado
Papers:
 
8B.1
The relationship between precipitable water vapor variability and convective activity over the Tropical Western Pacific as revealed by the GMS split-window data

 
8B.2
Satellite-observed convective components of the ITCZ

  9:30 AM
Mechanisms of night-morning maximum rainfall offshore of high mountains
Brian E. Mapes, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and T. T. Warner and M. Xu

Poster PDF (77.5 kB)
  9:45 AM
Westward generation of eastward-moving tropical convective bands in TOGA COARE
Shoichi Shige, National Space Development Agency of Japan, Tokyo, Japan; and T. Satomura

Poster PDF (154.7 kB)
  10:00 AM
An idealised two-dimensional framework to study convection over West Africa
S. D. Wright, CNRM, Toulouse, France; and J. P. Lafore and J. L. Redelsperger

  10:15 AM
Decadal Trends in Tropical CAPE
Charlotte A. DeMott, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and D. A. Randall

Poster PDF (217.7 kB)